Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 10 · June 15, 2000
John Leonard, A Child of the Age 
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Sanford Schwartz, Artist with a Calling
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art by Justin Spring
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art an exhibition at the AXA Gallery, New York, March 23-May 27, 2000
Selections from the Fairfield Porter Papers Institution, New York, March 16-July 10, 2000 an exhibition at the Archives of American Art/Smithsonian
Thomas Eakins (1959) by Fairfield Porter
Fairfield Porter: The Collected Poems, with Selected Drawings (1985) edited by John Yau, by with David Kermani, with an introduction by John Ashbery
Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (1992) by John T. Spike
Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935-1975 (1983) by Fairfield Porter, edited and with an introduction by Rackstraw Downes
Elizabeth Hardwick, Melville in Love
Brian Urquhart, Some Thoughts on Sierra Leone
Luc Sante, Her Story
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Michael Massing, The Narco-State?
David Lodge, Friendship
Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard
W.S. Merwin, Usage (poem)
Anne Applebaum, Inside the Gulag
Sistema Ispravitelno-Trudovikh Lagerei v SSSR, 1923-1960: Spravochnik (The System of Labor Camps in the USSR, 1923-1960: A Guide) edited by N.G. Okhotin, by A.B. Roginsky
Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System by Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova
Gulag v Komi Krai (The Gulag in the Komi Region) by N.A. Morozov
Gulag v Karelii (The Gulag in Karelia) edited by Vasily Makurov
Vyatlag by Viktor Berdinskikh
Polyansky ITL (Corrective Labor Camp) Zheleznogorska by S.P. Kuchin
Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag edited by Vilensky Simeon
Ingrid D. Rowland, When in Rome…
Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture by Bette Talvacchia
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna, Translated from the Italian by Joscelyn Godwin
Andrew Hacker, Back to Nature
The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
James Fenton, Separate Beds
Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
Robert L. Marshall, In Search of Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff
Tim Parks, The Hunter
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald, Translated from the German by Michael Hulse
Derek Walcott, A Frowsty Fragrance
Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 edited and with an introduction by Thomas W. Krise
Colin McGinn, Sign Language
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco, Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen
Garry Wills, Camping in Washington
Delancey's Way by James McCourt
Jasper Griffin, Bizarre New World
Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World edited by G.W. Bowersock, by Peter Brown, by Oleg Grabar
Sadik J. Al-Azm, The View from Damascus
Steven T. Katz, Peter Novick, Tad Szulc, et al. The Uses of Hell': An Exchange
Letters
Istvan Deak, The Pope, the Nazis, and the Jews'
John Gregory Dunne, Call Me Mister
Stuart Hampshire, Mark Lilla, 'Justice Is Conflict'
George M. Fredrickson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, 'The Darker Side'
Girish Karnad, Jasper Griffin, Castelives
Hamid Dabashi, Arien Mack, Arrested in Iran
Susan Gubar, The Editors, Criticism of Criticism
Sergio Sarri, An Ax Murder
Michael Scammell, Writing about Koestler
Lars-Erik Nelson, The Pierce Connection
Contributors
Sadik J. Al-Azm is Emeritus Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus. His writings include The Origins of Kant's Arguments in the Antinomies and The Tabooing Mentality: Salman Rushdie and the Truth of Literature (in Arabic), and the long essay "The Importance of Being Earnest about Salman Rushdie." (June 2000)
Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (February 2008)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
Robert L. Marshall, the Sachar Professor of Music at Brandeis University, is the author of The Compositional Process of J.S. Bach and The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach. (June 2000)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 2008)
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)
Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
